Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...fourth to make good, evened the series at two-all. Then Buck Newsom pitched again. While his teammates routed four Red pitchers, Big Buck allowed only three hits, shut out Cincinnati, 8-to-0. In the locker room after the game, Old Bo-Bo's stiff upper lip let go. "I pitched that game for my dad," he blubbered...
...meeting, announced yesterday by Clarence W. Hewlett, Jr. '42, president of the Harvard Chess Club, will be held in the Upper Common Room of the Union, and will probably determine what Freshmen will represent the Chess Club in its intercollegiate engagements this year...
...School of Education, awards were given as follows: University scholarship to Edward McD. Fritz 1G and G. Ed., of Baltimore, Md. Austin scholarship to Richard H. Wellor 1G and G. Ed., of Brookline, Upper Darby...
...renters got the benefit of this trend. Only tangible growth in city vacancies (hence lower rents) was in the upper brackets-houses and apartments renting for $45 or $50 a month and more. In much-moving Manhattan, renters in that bracket found reductions averaging 2½ to 5%. Biggest rap was taken by swank East Side apartments (seven rooms or over), where realtors found tenants beginning to economize by taking smaller units. Landlords, leery of giving tenants any weapon which might be used to beat down rents, did not talk, but last week the U. S. Census Bureau...
...these sunning English." "The cuckoo, the nightingale and the swallow had returned to all the London parks." Some of the sandbags had begun to sprout green things because instead of being filled with sand, they had been filled with plain black dirt. Norway had been lost. In upper-class English drawing rooms they were saying: "England always loses every battle but the last one." Asked about Norway, the chambermaid said: " 'Orrible! 'Orrible! But I 'ear we gave 'em what for: killed millions more of them than they did of ours and that's certain...